General Survey Information and Definitions

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NORC at the University of Chicago conducted the Rainin Survey on behalf of the Kenneth Rainin Foundation in Oakland, California. The Kenneth Rainin Foundation wants to fund early care and education programs in low socio economic neighborhoods that will help children succeed. In order to do so, The Foundation needed to find out what programs these neighborhood need and what programs would actually work.

In order to collect this data, NORC conducted 400 interviews across 14 Oakland neighborhoods. The study used an address based sample and households were considered eligible if it had at least one child under the age of six and not yet in kindergarten residing in it. Interviews were 1.5 hours long and respondents received a $50 incentive for participating. The interview consisted of several sections of questions including

• Child demographic
• Household demographics
• Child care arrangement and payments
• Employment
• Neighborhood attitudes
• Household context
• Household history
• Healthcare
• Child development and services received
• Child vocabulary measures

The following analyses are based on the data collected at both the neighborhood and city level.

Common terms utilized in the reports include:

• Household: The surveyed household, comprised of all children and adults who live at the designated address
• Respondent: The parent or guardian of the selected child who completed the interview.
• Child: If a household had more than two children under the age of 6, children were selected in a manner to obtain even representation of households that had children aged 0-3, 4-5, and households that had children in both age ranges. Data provided in the reports represent only the selected children and do not account for other children under the age of six in the household.

Report Contents

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This interactive report provides information about the attitudes, habits, lifestyles, and demographics of Franklin residents. The focus is on the children living in the neighborhood and their primary caretakers. All data represented in this report was collected as part of the Rainin/NORC Oakland Household Interview, and were collected in the spring of 2016.

The five sections of the report are:

• Demographics
• Child Development
• Parent Well-Being
• Technology and Communication
• Neighborhood Engagement

Select any section from this list or from the navigation menu above to start browsing the report.

Interpreting the Figures

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a. Race and Ethnicity

50% of Franklin household members identify as White or other*

*Respondents had the ability to select ‘other’ for their racial identity. In this report, additional racial categories are included in ‘other’ when the number of respondents providing that answer was fewer than three across the entire Oakland sample (Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and American Indian are the three such categories).

b. Household Size

c. Highest Education Level

d. Household Income

e. Ages of Household Members

f. Household Composition

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h. Immigration

80% of caregivers

i. Healthcare

40% of children

j. Languages Spoken

a. Parent Attitudes and Actions

Genetics: Research shows that intelligence is malleable and does not depend on genetics. Parents who agreed with the statement were incorrect in their response.
Learning before Kindergarten: There is a growing research base showing that children’s early learning experiences predict their academic achievement in school. Parents who agreed with the statement were incorrect in their response.
Educational TV: Research shows that children at that age do not learn any words from TV, rather, they build their vocabularies in interaction with their caregivers. Parents who agreed with the statement were incorrect in their response.

b. Reading to Children

4.2 days/week

c. TV Time

2.1 hours/day

d. Childcare – Type of Childcare

e. Childcare – Amount of Childcare

f. Vocabulary by Type of Childcare

g. Vocabulary by Amount of Childcare

h. Vocabulary by Child Age

a. Stress

b. Perceived Control

c. Adverse Childhood Experiences

Adverse Childhood Experiences

d. Family Support

c. Communication

83%

c. Communication Methods

a. Extended Family’s Time in Oakland

b. Time in Current Neighborhood

c. Involvement in Neighborhood Institutions

d. Connectedness to Neighbors and Neighborhood